Offscreen Buffer? P-Render!?

[Balverine]

Only untill recently have I not been able to play MS:C. Everytime I connect and try to join a server and what not.. I get a: Offscreen Buffer Error

And then when I click OK and get into the server. It looks like all is well, but then when I choose my character BAM! Not gonna get anywhere now with these spam of errors for:Bind p-render and Release p-render

The P-Render Errors are repeated everytime I press OK. It goes from the Bind p-render to the release p-render one and just continues on, and on, and on! (I held down enter and it just was spaming rapidly between the two..)

Any Help??

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[Jelly]

First some questions, to get more info on your problem.

1) Do you have ATi or nVidia?

2) When was the last time you updated your video driver?

3) Have you installed anything recently, that might have f*cked anything up?

If the answer to question #1 is ATi, then you're pretty much SOL (I think). If the answer is nVidia, then go to the next question.
If the answer to question #2 is recently, then try rolling back to before you had errors. If the answer is not for long or never, try updating the video driver.

All I can do for now. Never seen this problem before. Good luck.

 

[Balverine]

1) Do you have ATi or nVidia? I have an ATi but I don't see how that would effect me up till now. It's been fine for a week or 2 and now all of a sudden it hates me? Doesn't do this to me on any other HL1 Mods :|

2) When was the last time you updated your video driver? Few days ago but weren't any updates. MS:C was still working when I did that..

3) Have you installed anything recently, that might have f*cked anything up? Not that I know of.

 

[zeus9860]

try reinstalling the mod, delete all the files from ms:c folder and install again... This is a random tip so i dont know if it will help at all, at least it's better than leaving it like that

 

[Thothie]

Are you in OpenGL render mode?

 

[Balverine]

try reinstalling the mod, delete all the files from ms:c folder and install again... This is a random tip so i dont know if it will help at all, at least it's better than leaving it like that

I'm gonna try that. I'll let it download while I pass out from being up all night

Are you in OpenGL render mode?

Not a clue what you mean there...

Its odd though, works for a week then decides not to now. Anyways, i've already uninstalled and will reinstall in morning when the download is done and i'm awake (Its 5:37AM here and now i'm tired..) so i'll report back here with results after installation and testing.

Night Guys

 

[Thothie]

In MSC: Options->Video Tab

Make sure "Renderer" dropdown reads "OpenGL". MSC does not support D3D or Software modes, sadly.

 

[Balverine]

Ok, this makes 100% no sense.

I got up at 5pm because I overslept which is not something I usualy do, and then got side-tracked from reinstalling MS:C.
Heres EVERYTHING I did:

-Install Game
-Install Patch (Betapack)
-Change all my settings, check for OpenGL (Already set)
-Applied them and entered a server (Map: Edana)
-Got the same errors and had to close.
-Relaunched
-Had to rechange my settings (Cause I couldn't click exit so it never saved them)
-Exited
-Relaunched
-Checked settings but this time changed to D3D to test
-Applied and entered a server (Map: Edana)
-Got the errors that just froze it before could enter game.
-Relaunched
-Checked settings but rechanged it back to OpenGL
-Applied and entered a server (Map: Daragoth)
-Got just 1 error, the offscreen buffer one
-Choose my character and WHAT!? It works?
-Change to another server (Map: Edana) to see if it was just the map
-No offscreen buffer error this time and I can play!?

It makes no sense to me so it was either
1) Map - Which I doubt
2) I needed to for some reason switch off OpenGl then back to it :|

 

[zeus9860]

oh yeah that happens sometimes, i remember the same thing happening to me on Paranoia mod for hl... I had openGL on all steam games and my graphics in-game were messed up like i could see uncummon stuff around some models (mostly trees and plants) then i tried software and D3D and non worked, then i tried openGL once more and it worked properly. It's really weird stuff that happens on steam such has the games vanishing from gameslist or server filter :roll:

 

[Balverine]

== UPDATE: ==
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It seems to wanna work whenever the hell it feels like working.

Multiple times I keep trying to change the video settings to get it work again cause hey, the same errors are coming back. After a few times, I figured it was Edana that kept crashing me but now i'm not even sure anymore. I think my game just wants to not screw me over when it feels like it.

Seems like there isn't a permenant fix to this one but I guess whenever it starts erroring again (Its working again..) i'll just have to mess with it to get working.. AGAIN.

== BIG UPDATE: ==
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Its Edana that hates me so damn much. I got my friend to full help me test the Edana map theory.. and its correct. Edana seems to be the only reason I keep getting those errors. If I join Edana, errors. Join Daragoth, NOTHING.

I don't get it -_-"

 

[zeus9860]

Blame the mapper who made edana...
I don't know anything to help with this problem now :|

 

[J-M v2.5.5]

Try disabling reflections.
ms_reflect 0

No idea if that's going to work at all though, but it's worth a shot. Your guess is as good as mine, basically